Seated Half - Seated dime - 1867 shield nickel sandwich!

[Scrappy]

I went for a hunt today, and wandered over to the "new" section where I hadn't hunted much. Glad I did

I got a choppy high signal on my CTX at a very shallow depth 3". Thought it was a shoddy clad schwag quarter, but when I dug in I couldn't find the darn thing. Rescan and it's still there. Finally at 7" down I see a coin pile and thought clad again. but then I noticed the big coin and thought hey, maybe this is standing half...look at them Sa'miches!pried 'em apart.

I saw the writing and said Barber Half baby! And then...yeah I wiped it, so what! 1871-S Seated Half!!!

Cleaned up partially, will clean more tomorrow. The shield nickel is a 1867 without rays. back together again!

I'm very excited about this find. Aaaaaand the Seated Half puts me at, drumroll...100 silver coins for the year. Phew!!!

I love this hobby. Happy Hunting everyone!

 

[treblehunter]

WOW! Scrappy, that is sooooooooooooooo cool, I love that. Someday my seated will come and not be a seated half contemporary counterfeit.
Congrats!

 

[CASPER-2]

AWESOME - WTG

 

[basque-man]

Now that's one heck of a "coin spill"!!!! Congrats!!!!!!!!

 

[Scrappy]

WOW! Scrappy, that is sooooooooooooooo cool, I love that. Someday my seated will come and not be a seated half contemporary counterfeit.
Congrats!

Thanks Brad. The counterfeit thought did cross my mind since most of my silver comes from the ground nice. I didn't think that corroded copper would stick to silver like it did. A counterfeit half would have be a tough pill to swallow since this coin was on my list

 

[Scrappy]

Epic coin spill, Sweeeet!!

Guess I'm not posting my first ever big silver after seeing this. Lol

Well I'm glad you did. Congrats to us!

 

[Scrappy]

AWESOME - WTG

Now that's one heck of a "coin spill"!!!! Congrats!!!!!!!!

Thanks guys. I've found spills but not corroded together like that. Lol

 

[cjon455]

A real bummer. I was so upset there were no rays that I almost threw the other coins in the garbage. Lol. Thx

Yeah no rays would be a deal breaker for me, I'd toss those pesky seated dime and half in the river

 

[DirtStalker]

Dang great finds Scrappy. I now know who leads the New Jersey Silver Mafia NJSM.....YOU

 

[Scrappy]

Dang great finds Scrappy. I now know who leads the New Jersey Silver Mafia NJSM.....YOU

Lol. Neva hoird of 'em!

 

[Scrappy]

Here are the coins cleaned up. I'm going to stop here and let them be as they are without any further cleaning.

 

[DirtStalker]

Lol. Neva hoird of 'em!

Well it must be offshoot of the CSM Charlotte Silver Mafia headed by Carolina Tom

 

[pepperj]

Great spill, bummer there wasn't the penny and quarter to boot.

 

[Higgy]

It don't really get much better than that.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Sweet !

 

[Scrappy]

Well it must be offshoot of the CSM Charlotte Silver Mafia headed by Carolina Tom

Nah, not Tom! He's just a simple Italian restaurant owner...

 

[Scrappy]

Great spill, bummer there wasn't the penny and quarter to boot.

A true detectorists way of thinking. More! I was looking for colonial yesterday and came away with nothing. I felt upset for a second then was like "are you kidding me?!" to myself. Lol

 

[Scrappy]

I made a nice display of 4 series of Half Dollars since I can't go detecting. Enjoy!

 

[Steve in PA]

Wow Steve, I missed this post somehow. Congrats on the super coin spill and especially the seated half!!

 

[creade]

That's wicked cool

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

That's quite a nice little coin spill there Steve. Never dug a seated half myself. And congrats on #100!!